Pete Robinson centre with Museum Trustees Kevin Cook, Hugo Tagholm, Andrew Coleman and Richard Gregory
It was real pleasure to join the great and the good on Thursday night for the official launch of the British Museum of Surfing. Following years of tireless work a small band of surfing friends, led by founder Pete Robinson, finally got to to open the doors of Europe’s first surf museum, with the official ribbon cutting performed by Andrew Cotton and Ben Skinner. With music from Neil Halstead and beer from Skinners brewery the night was a fantastic celebration of the work done by so many volunteers and organisations and the realisation of a dream for Pete Robinson. Well Done!
Had an intresting and varried day – lots of photo editing as per usual – but as the sun went down it was time to hit the mean streets of Braunton in search of a location for some commissioned pix. It was cold and dark when we rocked up at the bowl but it was conveniently empty. Set up a few different shots and worked using remote lights, we where joined halfway through by a bunch of noisy teens who I feared would put an end to the shoot, but they just sat,watched and chatted amongst themselves until we left, when one of them gave a cheery “Bye”…nice. Here’s a quick peek just to keep young Willow happy.
Andrew Cotton testing out the HD camera board
“Croyde Bay”
“Flipping out”
